Several attorneys formerly practicing at Spokane-based Paine Hamblen LLP have joined forces and started their own firm here under the name KSB Litigation PS.

Jane Brown, who left Paine Hamblen as a managing partner to be one of KSB Litigation’s co-founders, says the firm has a total of 14 employees, including 10 attorneys, and occupies 4,500 square feet of space on the second floor of the Old City Hall building, at 221 N. Wall downtown.

The office space there was vacated in early November, and KSB Litigation began operating in it at the end of 2016, Brown says.

KSB Litigation’s main areas of practice are business, civil, and family-law litigation, says Brown, who notes that Avista Corp., of Spokane, is one its clients.

“All of the cases we previously had were imported to KSB,” Brown says.

Brown and her husband, attorney William J. Schroeder, and his son and daughter, William C. Schroeder and Anne Schroeder, also attorneys, along with Gerry Kobluk are KSB partners coming from Paine Hamblen. Brown says William J. Schroeder desires to “leave a legacy” to his practicing family members.

William J. Schroeder also left his position as a managing partner at Paine Hamblen. Also joining KSB Litigation from Paine Hamblen are attorneys Dave Broom—who serves as senior counsel—and Andy Smythe, Brown says.

Attorney Pat Miller, who earlier had retired from Paine Hamblen, now will work in Coeur d’Alene for KSB Litigation. Retired Spokane Superior Court Judge Jerry Leveque also will join the firm as senior counsel, Brown says.

Yvonne Leveque Kobluk also will soon join the firm. Leveque Kobluk is married to Gerry Kobluk and is Jerry Leveque’s daughter, Brown says.

 “Going to a new law firm can be very challenging, even when you’re looking for new challenges. When this space became available as quickly as it did though, then things really started moving fast,” Brown says.